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Project roles and strategic initiatives can significantly accelerate your career. They offer opportunities to connect outside of your functional area or business unit. They also provide possibilities to broaden your skills and to enlarge your understanding of the strategic challenges of the company or the organization you work for.… Read more “How Luigi took advantage of a strategic project to accelerate his career”

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Managing your career is an important task. It is also quite challenging, because you need to make important and sometimes complex decisions: What company to join? What job offers to consider? How to maintain your employability in the job market?… Read more “How career counseling helped Samantha”

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Being clear about your deeper desire, about what gives you fulfillment and true satisfaction should be the basis for your career strategy. This clarity will give direction to your career development.

Many are rushing into their professional life and focus on climbing up the hierarchy as quickly as they can.… Read more “How Antoine found his true career aspiration”

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Job interviews are highly decisive moments. This is your unique opportunity to position yourself for a role, where you will most likely be in competition with other candidates. But this is of course simultaneously your opportunity to find out more about the job itself and about the company.… Read more “How Alicia prepared for a job interview”

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The story of Martin should help you to gain better understanding of the “size” of a role. Usually, candidates focus mainly on three aspects: the grade, the hierarchical positioning and the size of the team reporting into the role. That is also the information that is usually visible in the upper part of the job description.… Read more “Martin’s experience concerning the true weight of a position”

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The decision what company to join is of crucial importance. This is true when you start your career but as well if you decide to change employer. One of the most important selection criteria is the economic health of the company.… Read more “How Sarah avoided joining an underperforming comany”

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Those of you who have an aquarium know how sensitive fish are with regards to the water quality. Multiple factors must be considered including purity of the water, temperature, level of oxygen, etc. A fish might not survive very long in an environment where the water does not match its needs, which are different from one species to another.… Read more “Iris’ painful experience of company culture”